HC Deb 02 March 1910 vol 14 cc846-7
Captain FABER

asked the Prime Minister if he would state whether the President of the Local Government Board was to have his emolument increased to £5,000 a year, as in the case of the President of the Board of Trade?

The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Asquith)

My own personal opinion is that, now that the President of the Board of Trade is in receipt of a higher salary, it would be an invidious thing that the President of the Local Government Board should not be in the same position, and that my right hon. Friend should be released from the self-denying covenant into which, with the late President of the Board of Trade, he entered last year. But the matter is one for general assent.

Captain FABER

Would it not be a matter of general assent if the Prime Minister inquired as to the brilliant manner in which the right hon. Gentleman answered the hon. Member for Hackney (Mr. Bottomley) just now?